>ОК, вечером посмотрю про роль. Хотя прилагательное "решающей" конечно ваше по любому случаю. И без огнеметов заняли бы, это ясно. Просто дольше добивать пришлось бы и потери больше.
“We could not have taken the island without the flamethrower,” said Bill Henderson, a Marine Corps veteran who fought on Iwo Jima, in a Marine Corps oral history of the battle. “It saved lives because it did not require men to go into caves, which were all booby-trapped and promised certain death to all who entered.”
